Zakyya Mcclenny

• Advanced orchestral training
• Learning and performing advanced orchestral literature
• Superior technical, musical, and personal application
• Character-building life skills

• The YOLA National Institute (YNI) aims to supplement musician's musical experience at home and at the YOLA National Festival. All program elements are provided for free to participating musicians, including travel, room,
and board.
• Musicians are introduced to a wide variety of artists over the course of the year, engage in their own creative projects, and work to better understand themselves, their vision, and their creative futures.
• YNI Fellows work together as a cohort over the course of the academic year, creating personal artist statements, exploring various career pathways, and supporting each other as they navigate the college application process, or their first year of college.
• The program offers mentorship, travel opportunities, and support for college applications.
• YNI Fellows are leaders who think critically about the arts, and actively seek opportunities to question the role of music in society and in their lives.

I serve as Principal Clarinetist of this Orchestra and am also a Scholar Musician with the organizations subsidiary company, The Marion Anderson Young Artist Program.

An intensive summer orchestra program with a focus on rigorous artistic development.

• Chamber Orchestra under the direction of LaSaundra Booth and Berginald Rash
• Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel and Mariam Adams
• Performed at The Walt Disney Concert Hall

• The opportunity to work in sectional/master class settings with expert teachers and musicians from the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and other exceptionally qualified professionals.
• Regularly scheduled performances in professional venues, including the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater and Verizon Hall.
• The opportunity to work with a professional and highly experienced conductor, and to rehearse and perform sophisticated standard orchestral repertoire at a professional level.

• Beginning to Intermediate full symphonic orchestra
• Acquire standard orchestral repertoire